From owner-freebsd-ppc Fri Jun 2 11:18:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E163E37BAD5 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:18:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA27510; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:17:47 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:17:47 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Christopher Petrilli Cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-ppc ideas In-Reply-To: <20000531111849.A5766@trump.amber.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 31 May 2000, Christopher Petrilli wrote: > Richard.Brooksby@pobox.com [Richard.Brooksby@pobox.com] wrote: > > At 2000-05-30 20:05 -0400, Christopher A Shepherd wrote: > > > > >Haven't seen a lot of traffic on this list, but I'd like to add support to > > >the idea of porting FreeBSD over to the powerpc. To this end, a lot of work > > >has already been done for us (yes I know, we don't just want to recycle > > >code), specifically.. > > > > Don't forget Apple Darwin OS > > . Presumably Apple > > know a lot about their own hardware and have written good drivers for > > it. > > This brings up a point I haven't seen addressed---or I'm just not > looking enough. What platforms are we intending to support. One of > the reasons that LinuxPPC was able to get up and running without major > Apple information was that they restricted themselves to PCI > machines. This is obviously one restriction. The other would be do > we want to restrict ourselves to the same set of machines that Darwin > is basically restricted to (G3 and above, I believe). > As a matter of fact I think we initally are. > As an Apple developer, it's killing some of your market, but... at > least initially it should enormously simplify the effort of getting > support running. > The thing needs to probably finally (and provided somebody actually does all the work, etc.) run on other things, inc. the 8xx series, etc. But all such things can be left out of consideration for now. > Chris > -- > | Christopher Petrilli > | petrilli@amber.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message